I’m excited to join up with host Secondary Sara and a bunch of outstanding ELA teachers to bring you The Best of The Best of our teaching ideas and ELA resources. Thanks for stopping by! Bell ringers are a terrific way to start a class successfully, focusing your students on the day’s class content, giving you a few minutes to do some clerical work,

The bell rings–and students immediately start responding to the question on the board, the (ungraded) quiz on a handout, or the prompt on a PowerPoint slide. Bell Ringers have become an effective beginning-of-class routine, focusing and preparing students for the day’s lesson and activities. Some teachers use the information they garner as quick formative assessments while others are grateful to have the 5 minutes a bell ringer

Customer Reviews

Of Mice and Men Interactive Notebook:
"This was absolutely the best thing I used all year! I used this product with my resource Language Arts class. These are students who are in high school, but are reading at the fifth grade level. I am still required to teach them "Of Mice and Men." As a result of using this interactive notebook, my special education kids knew this book like the back of their hands! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!"
Maggie C

"This made teaching OM&M in my ISNs so easy. I used every part of the unit. Thanks so much for the doing the work for me. Great resource."
Michael P.

Back to School Ice Breaker {First Day of Class Student Information Activity}

"Students loved this. It was a great way to get to know them and assess their writing at the same time."
Catherine T.

"My student's loved the student selfie! What a fun activity and I love that I was able to edit it! Thank you!"
Anna H.